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Re: Rubber toroids
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Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 17:26:39 -0700
From: randy-at-gte-dot-net
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Rubber toroids
Tesla List wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:16:06 -0700
> From: Jim Lux <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
> To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Subject: Re: Rubber toroids
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> I have talked to some HV experimenters who used a painted rubber inner tube
> as a HV terminal on a tesla coil. They encountered two problems: 1) The
> ozone makes the rubber degrade very quickly; 2) If a significant amount of
> heat is developed at any single point, the rubber gets soft. In either
> case, you wind up with a leaking toroid,
I was thinking about this earlier today.....if they can "bronze" baby
shoes (copper- plate is my guess)...could you fiberglass an inner tube
and coat with conductive paint, and copper/chrome plate that? You could
cut the glass open like a giant bagel, remover the tube, and reinforce
as desired, then glass it back together, and treat as above...would
this work?
Randy